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Beyond the Cathedral: Building Trust to Engage the African American Community in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention The Center for Minority Health (CMH) at the University of Pittsburgh has developed sustainable public health interventions for the African-American community in Pittsburgh. Through one program, African-American owned barbershops and beauty salons began providing... Published In: Health Promotion Practice	Journal articles	11/17/2009
Evidence of an Emerging Digital Divide Among Hospitals That Care for the Poor Some hospitals that disproportionately care for poor patients are falling behind in adopting electronic health records (EHRs). A central policy question is whether health information technology investments prompted by the 2009 federal stimulus... Published In: Health Affairs (Web Exclusive)	Journal articles	10/26/2009
Finding Answers Awards More Than $1.5 Million to Evaluate Interventions Aimed at Reducing Gaps in Health Care Among U.S. Racial and Ethnic Groups Organizations are working to eliminate racial and ethnic health care disparities in their communities.	News releases	10/19/2009
Researchers Identify Four Key Areas to Reduce Health Care Disparities and Save Lives of African Americans and Hispanics Researchers at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry estimated the impact that eliminating disparities in health care between racial and ethnic minorities and whites would have on minority health.	Grant Results Reports	10/06/2009
RWJF Selects 15 Hospitals to Participate in National Quality Improvement Collaboratives RWJF announced the selection of 15 hospitals to participate in two new quality improvement programs as part of its ambitious Aligning Forces for Quality initiative.	News releases	08/25/2009
Treating Patients More Quickly with RACE The RACE project introduced a standardized process by which each participating hospital designates a reperfusion and triage strategy for STEMI patients to decrease door-to-balloon times for percutaneous coronary intervention.	Promising practices from the field	08/11/2009
Parable of Success in Cardiac Care Parable of Success in Cardiac Care (from Talking About Quality Part 3: How We Get There—Quality Improvement) Add to my presentation E-mail Published In: Talking About Quality Part 3: How We Get There	Slides	06/30/2009
Reducing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (from Talking About Quality Part 3: How We Get There—Quality Improvement) Add to my presentation E-mail Published In: Talking About Quality Part 3: How We Get There	Slides	06/30/2009
Research Roundup Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development ProgramKirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Ph.D., M.D.'s study, Racial Differences in Incident Heart Failure...	Stories and articles	04/15/2009
Race/Ethnicity and Patient Confidence to Self-Manage Cardiovascular Disease This study examines associations between race/ethnicity and other characteristics that determine confidence levels related to cardiovascular disease (CVD) self management. Minority cardiac patients have lower levels of confidence in their ability to self-manage CVD... Published In: Medical Care	Journal articles	04/01/2009

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